About Brajeshwar

The page foregrounds a run of startups Brajeshwar Oinam founded or co-founded, with brief stops in salaried roles between them. He landed his first job as a computer graphic designer at a comic magazine startup in Mumbai in 1999, and by 2003 had already left a stable job to freelance full time. Two years later he co-founded his first company, and the page reads as a chain of startups from there: acquisitions, pivots, and one Y Combinator rejection along the way.

In 1999, he had no computer of his own, so he finished the graphic editing test for that first job at an internet café near the Mumbai University hostel where he was staying, an hour before the interview.

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• Oinam Software (founded 2005) took on client work for Adobe, Disney, Macromedia and Tata Consultancy Services, and describes itself as a ghost developer for other contractors’ successful projects.
• Mixercast acquired the Oinam Software team in 2006. The company was dissolved in 2009 after selling its IP to Google.
• oCricket, a network built in 2007 for cricket fans, was acquired in 2009. Its team became the founding team of Infinitely Beta, whose product Paisa.com later merged with HelpShift.
• Levoma, a mobile video-dating service launched in 2010, was the first Indian startup to graduate from the Founder Institute’s Winter 2010-2011 Silicon Valley chapter, finishing among the final 12 of an initial cohort of over 50.
• At Razorfish (2014-2016) as Creative Director in Bangalore, he hired and trained more than 50 designers and developers in a year, and worked on ABOF.com, Johnson & Johnson Visioncare, and DMart’s e-commerce initiative.
• A 2018 venture with co-founder Gurjot Singh started as large-scale Vanadium Redox Battery storage, pivoted to precision farming with aeroponics, and was interviewed but rejected for Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch.
• As Chief Product Officer at Mobisy (2018-2019), he worked on products reaching over 150,000 users and 5 million retailers across India, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, serving brands like Unilever, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola.